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If You’re A Writer, Stop…

Asking for permission. I don’t care how young you are or how much experience you have. You don’t need to ask for permission to create. You don’t need my permission. You don’t need your mom’s permission. And most importantly, you don’t need the world’s permission.

Pleasing other people. The only person you need to please is yourself. And that’s hard enough as it is. Do what you want to do. Create something you genuinely want to create. If someone isn’t pleased about it, that’s their problem. Guess what? Unlike your plot holes, you don’t have to fix it.

Wishing and wondering. Do you wish and wonder and dream and daydream all the time? There’s nothing more I can say. Are you working and doing? Now we’re talking. I know it’s difficult. I know you’re busy. I know real life sucks more often than not. Why do you think I escape to fictional worlds and never want to leave them?

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Herminia Chow is a full-time undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, hoping to major in Book and Media Studies. She resides in Ontario, Canada with her family. When she isn't being an insomniac, Herminia can be found reading good prose or writing bad poetry. She loves to dance like nobody's watching and applies the same philosophy to blogging by convincing herself that nobody reads her posts.